Writing a bibliography and citing your sources are not optional activities! Whenever you've used a resource for your research, you need to give that author or editor credit for his or her work.
The Internet has made it much easier to create a correctly formatted bibliography. The following online tools will all help you format your entries. However, they will not do all of the work for you! You still need to gather the correct information from your sources, whether they are print resources like books and journals or electronic resources like websites and databases.
Writing a bibliography and citing your sources are not optional activities! Whenever you've used a resource for your research, you need to give that author or editor credit for his or her work.
The Internet has made it much easier to create a correctly formatted bibliography. The following online tools will all help you format your entries. However, they will not do all of the work for you! You still need to gather the correct information from your sources, whether they are print resources like books and journals or electronic resources like websites and databases.
Easybib
*Noodlebib
BibMe
Citation Machine
KnightCite
*The best way to access NoodleBib is through the MS Library Moodle page. Scroll down to Research Resources, and you will find the link.
This page is a very useful resource for putting together your works cited list:
http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/workscited/index.html
Still not sure what plagiarism really is? This article explains it simply and includes an anti-plagiarism checklist:
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#